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127 x 101 mm. Showing houses on the foreshore in Belize City with small fishing boats in the foreground.

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101 x 77 mm. Showing the rather squat Cathedral buildings. Consecrated in 1812, and situated behind Government House at the southern end of Belize City, St. John's was the first Protestant Church in Central America. The church has its place in the traditional friendship between the English and the Mosquito Indians, who helped in the struggle against the Spanish. After 1816, several of the Mosquito kings were crowned in the Cathedral.

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126 x 121 mm. Showing Honduran women doing their laundry among the beached boats on the banks of the river at Stann Creek, with a bridge and various buildings in the background. Stann Creek lies on the coast of the island of Belize about 50 miles south of Belize City.

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126 x 101 mm. A view looking along a grass verged lane with houses on either side in the town of Stann Creek.

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127 x 101 mm. Showing European and Honduran children on the bank of the river at Stann Creek. With a bridge at the extreme left of the picture.

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127 x 101 mm. A village scene showing Honduran women and children standing among thatched huts.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: Arthur was an efficient administrator and kept copies of virtually every official letter he wrote during his tenure as Superintendent and Commandant. These include dispatches to Bathurst on colonial affairs and to the Commander-in-Chief, Jamaica, regarding military administration. Letters to neighbouring Spanish colonies reflect his diplomatic responsibilities. Part of the collection relates to Bradley’s dispute with Arthur, which went before Parliament in 1837. A series of Inland Letter...

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138 x 88 mm. A postcard (original photograph) by Avery showing Carib villagers standing amongst thatched huts at Stann Creek.

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The first extract records Chief Justice Temple's reasons for his decision of 12 Sept. 1859 in a dispute over a license to cut logwood granted by the government to John Lodge. The second extract records Acting Chief Justice R.J. Walcott's decision of 8 Sept. 1860 in a dispute over rent due to the government for the occupation and use of land by John Lodge.

Scope and Contents The first extract records Chief Justice R.J. Corner's decisions in a property dispute between Felipe de la Vega and Pedro Carillo in Jan. and Mar. 1870. The second records Corner's decision in a property dispute between William Guild and Stewart Carter on 27 June 1870. The third extract documents Corner's decision on 25 Jan. 1875 in an action brought by Aurelia Gill for damages from the Lieutenant Governor for the loss of her husband. The fourth extract concerns Chief Justice William A....

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The first section records Chief Justice William Parker's decision in the case of the wrecked ship, the 'Adele et Marie' in Mar. 1878. The second extract records Parker's judgement in the case of Hannah Oswald vs Alfred Seaman Kindred, Manager of the Belize Estate and Produce Company in June 1879. The final extract concerns Parker's decision in the appeal of David Gentle against a conviction for illegal export of spirits, delivered on 4 Mar. 1881.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: Arthur was an efficient administrator and kept copies of virtually every official letter he wrote during his tenure as Superintendent and Commandant. These include dispatches to Bathurst on colonial affairs and to the Commander-in-Chief, Jamaica, regarding military administration. Letters to neighbouring Spanish colonies reflect his diplomatic responsibilities. Part of the collection relates to Bradley’s dispute with Arthur, which went before Parliament in 1837. A series of Inland Letter...

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Three copies.

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110 x 80 mm.

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153 x 110 mm. Showing crowds in their best clothes walking beside the race track on Race Day.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: Arthur was an efficient administrator and kept copies of virtually every official letter he wrote during his tenure as Superintendent and Commandant. These include dispatches to Bathurst on colonial affairs and to the Commander-in-Chief, Jamaica, regarding military administration. Letters to neighbouring Spanish colonies reflect his diplomatic responsibilities. Part of the collection relates to Bradley’s dispute with Arthur, which went before Parliament in 1837. A series of Inland Letter...

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127 x 101 mm. Showing Hondurans sitting on the wooden trestle railway bridge which crosses low ground in the jungle. Completed in the early years of this century, the railway ran from Middlesex to Dangriga along the Stann Creek Valley. Some of the building was done by immigrants from the West Indian islands who came to the Stann Creek area between 1880 and 1890 attracted by the prosperity of the banana plantations in the area.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: Arthur was an efficient administrator and kept copies of virtually every official letter he wrote during his tenure as Superintendent and Commandant. These include dispatches to Bathurst on colonial affairs and to the Commander-in-Chief, Jamaica, regarding military administration. Letters to neighbouring Spanish colonies reflect his diplomatic responsibilities. Part of the collection relates to Bradley’s dispute with Arthur, which went before Parliament in 1837. A series of Inland Letter...

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: Arthur was an efficient administrator and kept copies of virtually every official letter he wrote during his tenure as Superintendent and Commandant. These include dispatches to Bathurst on colonial affairs and to the Commander-in-Chief, Jamaica, regarding military administration. Letters to neighbouring Spanish colonies reflect his diplomatic responsibilities. Part of the collection relates to Bradley’s dispute with Arthur, which went before Parliament in 1837. A series of Inland Letter...

Scope and Contents 127 x 101 mm. A view looking across a large field under cultivation with huts dotted here and there and mountains in the distance. Banana production in Belize was a fast expanding export crop with a large market in the United States. After the development of Stann Creek as a banana centre there was an equally fast decline as disease and poor cultivation methods took their toll. By 1906 many of the larger producers had withdrawn from the market, but from the evidence of this picture the...

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136 x 87 mm. A postcard (original photograph) looking along a railway track with plantation workers' huts on either side and the manager's residence on a hill in the background. With mountains in the distance.

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137 x 88 mm. A close-up view of the house on the hill seen in the preceding plate, a raised two storey wooden building with verandahs on all sides.

Scope and Contents 127 x 101 mm. Showing an unidentified building (flying the American flag) on the waterfront at Saint George's Cay (also known as Kay Casine). Saint George's Cay is the outermost of the mass of protective islands which lie at the harbour mouth of Belize City and has been the scene of several incidents, most notably the Spanish attack in September 1779 (when 140 prisoners and 250 enslaved persons were captured and transported to Havana, where they remained until 1782), and the battle of 1798...

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390 x 80 mm. A roughly joined panorama of the south side of Belize City consisting of three prints. The view extends to the harbour frontage at the left of the picture and shows a small part of the north side of the city at the right. In the centre of the picture can be seen the original Court House and the Presbyterian Church.

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127 x 101 mm. Showing part of the canal which runs from Haulover Creek through the southern section of Belize City, with children standing on a small wooden bridge and a European woman in in the foreground.